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Please comment on Talk:Autism

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Please comment on Talk:Gout

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Reasons my Article was Denied?

T-SUM27 (talk) 04:12, 19 May 2014 (UTC)Hello Herald Can you please tell me why my article about Adam Carter was denied? I am not seeing the reasons anywhere and I would like to make necessary edits. Thanks for your help.

Tech News: 2014-21

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• Tech News is one year old this week; thank you for being with us!

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf5) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 15. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 20, and all Wikipedias on May 22 (calendar).
• The jQuery JavaScript library was updated on May 16. Please check that your gadgets and scripts still work. [1] [2] [3]
• MediaViewer was enabled for all users on the Kannada (kn) and Telugu (te) Wikipedias on May 13. It will be enabled on the German (de), English (en), Italian (it) and Russian (ru) Wikipedias and on all Wikisource wikis on May 22. Feedback is welcome. [4] [5]
• VisualEditor was added as a beta feature to Wikimedia Commons on May 15. You can enable it in your preferences. [6] [7]
• You can read a summary of the Wikimedia technical report for April 2014.

VisualEditor news

• VisualEditor's buttons and icons can now be accessed using keyboard keys. [8] [9]
• VisualEditor's new citation tool now matches templates like {{cite_web}} and not just {{Cite web}}. [10] [11]
• VisualEditor's welcome message will no longer be shown to users who have already seen it. [12] [13]
• VisualEditor now shows a clearer message when you cancel an edit. [14]
• The toolbar of the PageTriage extension will no longer be visible inside VisualEditor. [15] [16]

Future software changes

• User ID number will no longer be visible in preferences. [17] [18]

Problems

• For several hours on May 16, there were problems with loading gadgets on some wikis due to a server problem. [19]

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07:18, 19 May 2014 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Cro-Magnon

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Please comment on Talk:5:2 diet

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5		CellSqueeze (talk)						Orphan
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25		Genetically modified insect (talk)						Stub
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Tech News: 2014-22

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• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf6) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 22. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 27, and all Wikipedias on May 29 (calendar).
• MediaViewer will be enabled on all Wikisource wikis on May 29, and on the German (de) and English (en) Wikipedias on June 3. Feedback is welcome.

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• VisualEditor's welcome message and wikitext warning now say that you can switch to source mode editing and keep your edits without saving them. [20] [21] [22] [23]
• A bug that caused files not to appear after saving edits in the File: namespace was fixed last week. [24] [25]
• VisualEditor tabs will no longer appear in namespaces where VisualEditor is disabled. [26] [27]
• It is now possible to edit inline images with VisualEditor; many minor bugs related to images have also been fixed. [28]
• VisualEditor will no longer convert spaces to underscores inside links to pages in namespaces that include spaces in their names. [29]

Future software changes

• Wikimedia Labs will stop working for about 10 minutes around 18:00 UTC on May 30 due to a server upgrade. [30]
• It will soon no longer be possible to upload different files under the same name at the same time using the UploadWizard tool. [31] [32]
• Links to TIFF, DjVu or PDF files created with the syntax [[File:Name.ext|thumb|page 15 is my favourite]] will now show an image caption if there is any text after page number; previously they caused the given page to appear. [33] [34] [35]
• You will soon see information about global blocks for IP addresses on their contributions page on your local wiki. [36] [37]

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08:29, 26 May 2014 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Cdrtools

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Please comment on Talk:Richard C. Hoagland

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Hi I am just wondering what you are looking for in order for my submission to get accepted. Here is the link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Barry_King_(tennis)

Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Footer44 (talk • contribs) 11:20, 31 May 2014 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2014-23

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Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf7) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 29. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 3, and to all Wikipedias on June 5 (calendar).
• CirrusSearch was enabled as the primary search method on all Wikipedias with less than 100,000 pages on May 30. [38]

VisualEditor news

• Templates that redirect to other templates now get the TemplateData of their target. [39]
• The toolbar of the PageTriage extension will no longer be visible after you save an edit with VisualEditor. [40] [41]
• VisualEditor now checks if your browser supports SVG files to avoid displaying broken icons. [42]
• There is now a new type for TemplateData parameters: date for dates and times in the ISO 8601 format. [43]

Future software changes

• MediaViewer will be enabled on the German (de) and English (en) Wikipedias on June 3. Feedback is welcome.
• You will soon see a warning if you visit a contributions page for a user that does not exist. [44] [45]
• The search tab will soon be removed from user preferences. You will be able to set your search preferences on Special:Search. [46] [47]
• You will soon see a label next to the little triangle arrow for the Actions menu in the Vector skin (screenshot). [48] [49]

Problems

• For about 20 minutes on May 29, all wikis were broken due to a configuration error. [50]

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08:08, 2 June 2014 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Super-spreader

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